Improvement in fruit-driers



0. P.- PENOE;

Fruit Dryer.

Patented Oct. 4, 1870.

j hot air and amt swa Mini min-r.

oLIVnaP, PENG-E, or one MOINES, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 108,048, dated October 4,1870.

IMPROVEMENT lN FRUITPDRIERS- The Schedule referred tofin these Letters Patent and makin'g part of the same.

I, OLIVERPQP nGE," of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented and Impiovedfortable Fruit-Drier, of which the following isa specification,

My inyention consists in arranging movable drawers in a case in such ama-nnerthat they can be placed over a heated stove, or metal plate, and the hot air made t'o passthrough andaround enema the purpose of drying fruit, oranythingthat may be placed in thedrawers. p

. The drawing is a perspective view of. my portable drier, with oneend open and the first or lower drawer removed.

AA is the body or the case, made of wood. l B BB is a metal base, closed on three sides and opeiiat b bL Italso has an 'opening at a a, where the hot-air is allowed to passupward to the drawers.

The metal base rests on the top. of the stove, or

metal plate, when in use, and serves to "eonduct the to preserve thewoodeh easefrombrirn- 1 I i i. i

C- O representtwo metal perforated plates. The. upper one has a handleflattaehed, which projectsthrough the end of the case,and can'be thereby moved upon the underperforatedplate', so. as to open of hot air can be easily regulated. A corresponding pair of plates are placed in the or close the perforations. Bythis means the draught upper part of thecase overthedrawers, and operated in the samemannei' and for thesame purposes.

D D D represent the movable drawers in place.

Three difi'erent kinds ,of drawer bottoms are. used in my model, showing that perfiwrated sheet-metal,

wire, and wood, may be used. a v

i "E is the pipe throughwhich the steam and hot air escapes. The dotted lines show how it may be conducted into the"sto've-pipe. By this arrangement a",

strong draught wiltbe obtained, and all the steam a complete and, I airyis'i-new. iWhen all of the drawers are filled with fruit, and a and fumes carried fronrthe room where the drier is in use a i In the open air the pipe can be extended upward sufiiciently to create enough draught.

c cis a wooden bottom, placed under the second drawer, to aid in distributing and circulating the hot air; At the end where it is shown it is fitted to the three sides of the case. At the opposite end, (not shown,) it is open suflicientlyto allow the hot air to pass upward. l

.The bottom or heat-distributer d (I, under the third drawer, is made like the other, excepting that the opening is at-the opposite end.

.My portable and sizes.

Iamaware that drying-boxes and drawers of radrier may be made of various forms rious kinds are in use. But a simple portable drier, in which fruit can be dried in three hours, and which .-isadapted for use on a stove in the house, or on a stove or plate out doors, and which is provided with that in the lower ones dries'more rapidly than in the upperones, their position may be changed.

Claim I claim as my inveution--- Thecase A A, the metal base B pipe E, the heat-distributers 0 c and (l (I, all made,

combined, and operated, substantially as described,

and for the purposes specified.

I. r his OLIVER P. X FENCE.

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simple means of regulating the hot 3B, the perforatedplates O G, the moy'able drawers D D D, the 

